Transcribed from the 1906 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] GRISLY GRISELL OR THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES * * * * * BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE’, ETC. ETC. * * * * * London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1906 _All rights reserved_ * * * * * Copyright, 1893, BY MACMILLAN & CO. * * * * * Men speak of Job, and for his humblesse, And clerkes when hem list can well endite, Namely of men, but as in stedfastnese Though clerkes preisin women but a lite, There can no man in humblesse him acquite As women can, nor can be half so trewe As women ben. CHAUCER, _The Clerke’s Tale_. * * * * * _First Edition_ (2 _Vols. Crown_ 8_vo_) 1893 _Second Edition_ (1 _Vol. Crown_ 8_vo_) 1894, 1906. CONTENTS